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On anarchism, Moral Monday surveillance and The Color Run
Editor's Note: Better late than never
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About 940 people were arrested at the state legislature this summer during the civil disobedience-based grassroots progressive movement called Moral Mondays. T he trials of those charged have begun this month. The first trial, which took place on Oct. 4, occasioned more than just the conviction on all charges, which has been followed since by two dismissals of the same charges last Friday.
Not only did it reveal that the police had spied on the protesters with an undercover cop infiltrating planning meetings — General Assembly Police Chief Jeff Weaver also testified that his department had "collected intelligence" about the "anarchists" among the protesters. According to a story in The News & Observer from Oct. 7, Weaver "testified that his officers had scanned the many 'Moral Monday' rallies with eyes trained for 'anarchists,'" which led to "a murmur of disbelief among the many lawyers."
Commentators of formal and social media expressed disapproval regarding the police specifically looking to surveil alleged anarchists involved in Moral Mondays, holding that such outrageous concerns from the police were unwarranted or absurd. The outcry, though, should be regarding the NAACP's response. (more…)

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If you only read one story about British radio this year, make sure it's this one.
Grant Goddard has surveyed the ruins of the landscape and come up with some pithy conclusions. It's an even-handed piece, but spares nothing in vanity of a sector - public and private - that thought technology (through DAB) could substitute for innovative programming.
His reflections are prompted by a lack of growth in listenership of digital-only stations.
For its part, the declining commercial sector has done anything except make great radio:
Commercial radio has talked the digital talk for years about striving to make DAB a successful platform, vaguely promising new digital radio 'content' that it has still not delivered. Instead, it has spent the last few years cutting costs, consolidating, lobbying the government, complaining about the BBC, closing its digital stations and contracting out its DAB capacity to marginalised broadcasters (religious, ethnic, government-funded and listener-supported stations) that will never attract mainstream audiences to the platform (and whose listening is not even measured in the RAJAR audience survey).
He notes that we've seen commercial stations such as as OneWord, TheJazz, Core, Capital Life and Virgin Radio Groove disappear, to be replaced by, um... Traffic Radio, Premier Christian Radio and British Forces Broadcasting Service.
While DAB listening has grown, it's thanks to traditional stations like Classic FM and Radio 2, not new unique DAB only content.
The BBC has been the beneficiary of the introduction of DAB, increasing its share against commercial. But the Beeb's digital-only stations are under review.
The Asian Network costs £12.1m a year, but the national peak audience is only 31,000 adults - lower than when it launched seven years ago - 11 times the cost of Radio 1. It might be cheaper to email each listener the five hours of shows they enjoy, writes Grant.
A more serious problem for the BBC is a mirror image of commercial radio's creative negligence. The BBC has simply lost the knack of creating popular new stations: the ability "to successfully execute the launch of genuinely creative, innovative radio channels that connect with listeners (GLR, the 'new' Radio 1, the original Radio 5)" has deserted it.
That's a long term problem. Anyone who's been within earshot of a BBC radio exec in the last ten years know they're obsessed with platforms, platforms and more platforms... not the stuff that goes out over them. Unless it's swearing.
The most popular DAB-only station is one that was given the death sentence, then saved by its listeners and fans: Planet Rock. That's a sign people want distinctive programming.
DAB isn't going away, but a future government may eventually find a more profitable use for the valuable spectrum, looking to 4G to deliver niche content. Perhaps. We all know IP isn't quite there as a multicast technology, even though the IPv6 capability has been built into routers for years, and LTE will be IPv6. And streaming IP brings its own high distribution costs.
DAB has always had the potential to offer inventive and useful extras - some of which were described by Tony Moretta of DRDB here - and these are quite unique to the medium. But we're still waiting for many of these. Yet the cost to the public of chucking out the FM sets is £3.6bn, according to UTV chief executive Scott Taunton - and the cost of running dual FM/DAB operations is astronomical.
Radio is in the unhappy position where all the digital solutions cost money, and there's no quick fix. And whether DAB or LTE emerges as the most popular choice of a 'multiplatform' future, FM will still provide dirt cheap devices and easy access to the airwaves - a win for broadcaster and listener.
Who'd want to get rid of that? ®
You're probably wondering about Taunton's maths - as we were. He reckons 180 million analogue radios need to be replaced at £20 a pop.


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
1655 - 1716
Historical Period:
The Early Modern Period
Fletcher was a Scottish writer who opposed the 1707 union with England and was staunchly opposed to standing armies which he saw as a means to expand the power of the state and oppress the people. In preference to a standing army Fletcher believed that the ordinary people organised in militias were a bulwark of liberty.


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Note: This review originally ran in the Illinois Entertainer in November, 2007.
After scaring their fans with the slow-moving EP, The Wall To Wall Sessions, earlier this year, The Redwalls now have a bona fide successor to their 2004 breakout, De Nova. The energetic self-titled CD finds the Chicago band pursuing more ambitious songwriting. As on their previous full-length efforts, De Nova and Universal Blues, there's an emphasis on strong melodies and harmony vocals.
The catchy "Put Us Down" and "Don't You Wanna Come Out" exhibit a power pop expertise while "Summer Romance" is a Celtic flavored love song. "Hangman" features Justin Baren's house-shaking bass playing, and a sinister mood that's explored further with "Into The Maelstrom," a sort of pop take on Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir." The hard-edged sci-fi fantasy of "They Are Among Us" and the lush, Hollies style ballad "You Can't Forget Yourself" add even more dimension to a CD that should put The Redwalls back in limelight again.


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With it becoming increasingly likely that Michaud will be Maine's next governor, I knew what I had to do. I give you Mike Michaud Looking at Things, a curated collection:


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Genesis 2 English Standard Version (ESV)
The Seventh Day, God Rests
2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
The Creation of Man and Woman
4 These are the generations
5 When no bush of the field[a] was yet in the land[b] and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, 6 and a mist[c] was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— 7 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat[d] of it you shall surely die."
18 Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for[e] him." 19 Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed[f] every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam[g] there was not found a helper fit for him. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made[h] into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,
"This at last is bone of my bones
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
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Growing up Amanda and Ashley Cygan did everything together. As adults their decision to lose weight—after discovering their health was on the line—was no exception
Amanda Cygan
Before: 225 pounds
After: 162 pounds
Height: 5'4″
Age: 23
Ashley Cygan
Before: 212 pounds
After: 152 pounds
Height: 5'4″
Age: 23
Twin sisters Amanda and Ashley Cygan, preschool teachers in Raleigh, NC, share more than DNA. They both struggled with weight throughout junior high and high school. At 18, they received bad news from their doctor: They were at risk for heart disease and stroke, both of which run in the family. Because of their age, the doctor recommended weight loss instead of medication, and the sisters took his advice seriously.
The Goal
Both women hoped to decrease their BMI and improve their cholesterol levels and overall health; Amanda wanted to lower her LDL (bad) level, while Ashley worked to raise her HDL (good) level.
The Problem
Their diet resembled that of the typical American college student—fast food, soda, processed foods (especially refined grains), and the occasional ice cream sundae. The lack of exercise coupled with excessive portions of unhealthy food pushed the sisters past 200 pounds.
The Solution
The twins started seeing Erin Palinski, RD, CPT, in 2006, when they were still living at home with their parents in New Jersey. For the first year, they met with Erin every 2 weeks, and she encouraged them to make simple swaps and try whole wheat breads and pastas, homemade pizzas, light ranch dressing, and diet soda. Ashley made an effort to eat more foods containing monounsaturated fats, such as avocados and olive oil, to boost her HDL levels.
Erin showed the sisters what a proper portion looks like and suggested they follow a 1,400- to 1,500-calorie diet. They tracked their meals based on the type of food they ate, for instance, starch, vegetable, fruit, protein, fat, or dairy. Their journals were nearly identical. Once they moved into their own apartment, they kept a joint food record because they carried the same snacks to school and cooked dinner together.
Amanda and Ashley decided to begin exercising after a few months of focusing on their eating habits. They started with walking. A year later, each had lost close to 60 pounds and added resistance exercises to tone their bodies. At the campus gym, they did triceps extensions, biceps curls, squats, crunches, and cardio.
After graduation, the sisters moved to North Carolina, where they live in separate apartments in the same complex and teach at the same school. They go to the gym together twice a day—before and after work—alternating weights, the elliptical, and the treadmill. Their commitment to improving their health has paid off. Between 2006 and 2010, Amanda's LDL dropped to 129 from 148, and Ashley's HDL rose to 63 from 39 (Healthy LDL levels for women should be above 50, and HDL level should fall below 130 in the absence of other medical issues.)
The twins don't think they could have done this without their dietitian's help. "Knowing that someone was going to weigh me was a big motivator to work hard. I didn't want to disappoint myself or even Erin," Amanda says. She and her sister still touch base with Erin and make appointments with her when they're in New Jersey.
Erin says the twins are a great example of how to be successful with weight loss during big life transitions. Throughout their weight loss journey, they have moved out of their parents' house, completed college, moved to a new state, and started full-time jobs. "They just roll with it," Erin says. "For some people, one little thing throws them for a loop, and that's never really happened with them."
The Motivation
Each morning when Ashley's phone alarm goes off at 5 a.m., she says she wants to throw it out the window. The vision of her rocking a bikini is the only thing keeping her phone in tact. Amanda works extra hard because she is preparing to walk down the aisle next year.
The Rewards
The Cygan sisters can now shop at stores like Hollister, American Eagle, and Delia's—the clothing used to be too small for them.
Their Tips
It takes time. "Don't give up. After you start seeing changes, you will feel like a new person."—Ashley
Abandon the word 'diet.' "Call it a lifestyle change. People hear 'diet' and freak out—like I did. I tried every diet in the book. Just change the way you eat and watch your portions."—Amanda
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|This article is about a/an extra hero in Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger.
Nada (ナダ) is Master Red's former apprentice from the Ryusoul Tribe and later on revealed to be the current user of the Gaisoulg armor.
After the purification of Gaisoulg armor, Nada later joins the Ryusoulgers as their ally.
Character History
Apprenticed at some point by Master Red, Nada originally thought of Ryusoul Red as the group leader, and sought to become one due to believing his high performance in battle would gain him the position. Unfortunately, these thoughts are what didn't get him chosen as a Ryusoulger, and he soon began going on a quest to find a place in the world. When he encountered Koh, a squire of Master Red who did become Ryusoul Red, Nada attempted to pass on his ideas, but he only realized his foolishness after retrieving Kishiryu Chibigaroo.
Becoming Gaisoulg
After being rejected as Ryusoul Red, Nada began looking for a way to prove everyone wrong, eventually hitting upon the use of Gaisoulg's armor, scouring the cosmos before being led to planet Nemesis. Shortly after Towa and Bamba defeated Rita (who was the user of the Gaisoulg armor in that moment) on planet Nemesis, the Gaisoulg armor was scattered on the remains battlefield, Nada (who mysteriously was also on the planet), took Gaisoulg's helmet from the flames and left with it. Final Battle: Heading Towards Tomorrow! Wearing the armor, he eventually gained Master Green's memories. Although he became an unbeatable warrior thanks to the armor, the sheer violence of it all made him find it less fun than he had hoped.
Return as Gaisoulg
Nada, now under the identity of Gaisoulg, released Kishiryu DimeVolcano for Wizeru's purposes. However the Kishiryu was obtained by the Ryusoulgers first. The night after the Ryusoulgers defeated the Shen Minosaur, Gaisoulg met with Wizeru and Kureon mocking the first for allowing the Ryusoulgers to obtain DimeVolcano, which made Wizeru angry and had a small fight with him. Angrily Wizeru asks him why he didn't got rid of the Ryusoulgers by himself which Gaisorg responded that it was pointless as Wizeru wanted "entertainment". Gaisoulg tells Wizeru that he's going to let him know if he finds something interesting before leaving. Ep. 12: Scorching Illusion
Nada as Gaisoulg later approached Prime Minister Mioko Karino (who apparently recognized him) at her hospital room who tells her that he could have killed her if she wanted. Mioko responded that she and him are similar as both wander with nowhere to belong. Mioko tells Gaisoulg that he might be having trouble to let his past glory go and according to her, Gaisoulg could create a Minosaur by this rate. While Mioko leaves, Gaisoulg asks her where she's going which she answers where she belongs as she finally found her place. Ep. 13: The Prime Minister is of the Ryusoul Tribe!?
Aiding Towa
Nada as Gaisoulg meets face to face with Towa who was the last Ryusoulger standing as the others were captured by Wizeru with the power of the Grimoire Minosaur. Gaisoulg had a small battle with Towa in which he easily defeated him. Before leaving, Gaisoulg told Towa "to not rely on his strengths and bring them to life instead" which were the same words that Towa and Bamba's master used to said.Ep. 20: Supreme Artist
Encountering the Ryusoulgers
Nada shows himself under his true identity first to Canalo (RyusoulGold), he requests him to take him to the other Ryusoulgers, telling them that he wants to join them on their fight against the Druidon. Later while the Ryusoulgers were fighting the Dodomeki Minosaur, Nada as Gaisoulg attacks and defeats them telling Koh that "The Fun is just beginning" before leaving. Ep. 26: Seventh Knight
Succumbed to the armor and Joining with the Ryusoulgers
Nada eventually reaches to the point where he cannot control Gaisoulg, thus letting the armor taking over his mind.
Gaisoulg made its way to the Ryusoulgers while the latter were fighting Gachireus and Jack-o'-lantern Minosaur, the Druidon Tribe members retreats as Gaisoulg rampages on site. Suddently, Towa uses the DoshinSoul to weaken Nada's body as a mean to force Gaisoulg to switch a new host, and Melt suggests to use the Minosaur's rainbow rain to accelerate the process to exhaust Gaisoulg's hatred. Gaisoulg attempted to take Koh as its new host but was blocked by the Ryusoulgers and its hatred was expelled by the rainbow rain, relieving Nada and Koh.
After defeating the Jack-o'-lantern Minosaur, the Ryusoulgers return to the Tatsui residence. Nada secretly follows in as Gaisoulg, frightening Ui and Naohisa untill he surprises them by using the Gaisoul Ken as a backscratcher. Then Nada took off Gaisoulg's helmet, showing his gratitude to the Ryusoulgers and giving Towa a payback fight upon using the DoshinSoul on him. Ep. 32: When The Rain of Hatred Ceases
Powers and Abilities
- Ryusoul Tribesman Physiology
- As member of Ryusoul tribes, he possessed these following abilities:
- Longevity
- Ryusoul tribespeople age very slowly and can live for hundred years.
- "Gaisoul Change! (rock riff) Haa~"
- ―Transformation announcement via Gaisoul Ken[src]
Originally on the verge of becoming the armor's host, the Ryusoulgers managed to drain Gaisoulg's hatred via the Jack-o'-lantern Minosaur, freeing Nada and making the armor safe to use.
- Gaisoul Ken: a silver/purple version of the Ryusoul Ken: Gaisoulg's weapon
- Unnamed shield
- RyuSouls
- GaiSoul
- ByuByuSoul
- Ancient Break Edge (エンシェントブレイクエッジ Enshento Bureiku Ejji): With the Gaisoul Ken, Gaisoulg gathers energy and unleashes two energy slashes that combine to form an "X" slash before hitting the target.
- Projectile Energy Blade Attack
Powers & Abilities
- Invisibility: While it's unknown if he can access to this ability via KakureSoul like the Ryusoulgers or is a power belonging to a host. It's confirmed that Gaisoulg can turn himself invisible to sneak into any place he wants. Ep. 13: The Prime Minister is of the Ryusoul Tribe!?
- Minosaur Creation: According to Mioko Karino, Gaisoulg is capable of creating Minosaurs, much like herself or Kleon. Ep. 13: The Prime Minister is of the Ryusoul Tribe!? This power was presumably lost upon the Gaisoulg armor being purified thanks to Jack-o'-lantern Minosaur. Ep. 32: When The Rain of Hatred Ceases
Appearances: Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Episodes 12-13, 20, 26-27, 29-33
Behind the Scenes
- Nada is portrayed by Seiya Osada (長田 成哉 Osada Seiya), who previously played Kazuhiro Fuwa in Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger. As Gaisoulg, his other voice is voiced by Tomokazu Seki (関 智一 Seki Tomokazu), who previously voiced Mepple in Futari wa Pretty Cure, Buldont in Choriki Sentai Ohranger and the Narrator and the voice of the Gokaigers' equipment in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, while also voicing the Ryusoulgers' equipment.
- Nada, as Gaisoulg, shares the similarities to previous Extra heroes:
- Similar to Wolzard - both were being cursed into evil fighting against their respective Sentai teams before they're eventually free from evil and joining forces with their respective Sentai teams.
- Similar to Rio - both were trained under their respective masters before they fell into dark side.
- Similar to Hyuuga - both are Knight-themed Extra heroes who joined alongside their respective Sentai teams.
- He is also sharing the similarities to Dragon Ranger, Abare Killer and Deathryuger when all of them are evil at some point.
- Unlike Deathryuger, Nada, Burai and Mikoto are redeemed to join with their respective Sentai teams.


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This is the first in a series of blog posts by Peak Advisor Alliance coaches that will address the major business issues faced by advisors.
As I stood on stage at a recent Barrier Breaker Workshop, it occurred to me that the biggest challenge advisors face when goal planning is themselves. Every advisor knows they are supposed to have a business plan: a formal document stating the goals and action plan for achieving those goals. So why is it that so many of these plans start out written with such intent but end up forgotten and abandoned?
I see this everywhere I go, whether it's at Peak Alliance's one-day workshops or in our national Excell meetings. Advisors feverishly script out their goals, ideas, and objectives only to see that these same grandiose ideas fall on deaf ears and gather dust on a shelf while the future, so eloquently described in the plan, never seems to materialize as hoped.
What a business plan needs most is vision, which is why I coach advisors to create a Vision Plan. Creating a clear vision for your business takes thought. It is the one time you should think larger than you normally would and an opportunity to consider what you hope to ultimately see if you accomplished all your objectives. Most important, this vision needs to inspire you to wake up each day excited about the work that lies ahead. Without this inspiration, your Vision Plan will not sustain the successes and failures of your business. It will simply die out as a seed would without moisture.
Don't despair over what it will take to formulate your Vision Plan: it isn't a 30-page document that will take you months to produce. Rather, your Vision Plan should simply and clearly focus on what you are building in your practice.
Vision planning involves looking into the next three, five and 10 years. Start with the end in mind. Work backward to identify what you want each of the following categories to look like within each of these time periods:
- Revenue
- Assets under management
- Number of households
- Number of staff members
- Miscellaneous (e.g. net income, number of weeks off, number of A+ clients, etc.)
Next, fill in details for the three-year mark by identifying specific initiatives, strategies and action plans to achieve your vision. Once you have a strong understanding of where you want your business to be and how to get there, make sure you establish deadlines for yourself and set specific time aside to work on your goals.
This time is just as important to your business as converting your next high-net worth client. If you don't make time to think on a high level, you'll get lost in shuffle of everyday life. To help you get started today click here, enter the code "blue" and download the Peak Advisor Alliance Blueprinting Guide.
Here's something important to keep in mind: Business success is not always linear. A business may grow significantly early on and then taper off or plateau, but eventually become more efficient and profitable. Avoid getting stuck on what you think your business is supposed to be in relation to the goals of other advisors. Remember to stay true to your vision, and most important, don't be afraid to dream big. People commonly overestimate what they can do in one year, but often hugely underestimate what they can achieve in a decade. Be realistic in the short term, and use your imagination for the long term.
Make your vision clear to everyone in your office. I can't tell you how many times I've seen advisors experience unprecedented growth simply because their team understood the "why" behind their goals. It creates excitement about the future you have envisioned and keeps others motivated to continue working towards that future.
Yes, a lot goes into a Vision Plan, but the beauty of this process is that it all starts with one easy step I challenge you to take today: block out regular times on your calendar devoted to purposeful actions to execute your vision. This may strike you as common sense, but so few are willing to create that first ripple in the water.
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A dying man gives each of his best friends — a lawyer, doctor and clergyman — an envelope containing $25,000 in cash to be placed in his coffin.
A week later the man dies and the friends each place an envelope in the coffin. Several months later, the clergyman confesses that he only put $10,000 in the envelope and sent the rest to a mission in South America.
The doctor confesses that his envelope had only $8,000 because he donated to a medical charity.
The lawyer is outraged, "I am the only one who kept my promise to our dying friend. I want you both to know that the envelope I placed in the coffin contained my own personal check for the entire $25,000."
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Finlayson: The Education Wage Premium (Troy Media)
By Jock Finlayson
As published in Troy Media, May 8, 2013
The past two years have witnessed considerable public and media interest in the issue of inequality, as evidenced by the emergence of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement in the United States and its counterparts in several other countries.
Many studies confirm that income inequality has grown in many affluent nations. The trend is especially pronounced in the United States, where the richest 10 per cent of households have almost six times as much income as the bottom 10 per cent. The ratio is lower in Canada, but income disparities have widened here as well. And in many advanced economies a rising share of all income seems to be accruing to the top 1 per cent of earners.
Economic research points to a number of factors that have increased inequality and boosted incomes at the upper end of the distribution: globalization, the impact of technological change, competition from emerging economies, and (until recently) rapid growth of the financial sector. Fast-climbing compensation for chief executives, professional athletes, entertainers, and some successful business owners has also played a role in driving income gains at the very top.
But the most important contributor to greater earnings inequality is increases in what economists refer to as "the education wage premium" – the economic returns to individuals who possess one or more university degrees (or other high-value work-related credentials). Continued growth in the demand for better-educated workers has raised earnings for people in the top 20-25 per cent of the income distribution.
Another phenomenon that has fostered larger gaps in household (as opposed to individual) income is what social scientists refer to as "assortative mating." This awkward term captures the realty that marriages now increasingly occur among individuals from the same socio-economic strata. Today, people with university degrees are more apt to marry other degree-holders than to wed someone with lesser educational qualifications. Combined with the fact that a large majority of working-age women are now full participants in the labor force, "assortative mating" has significantly accentuated divergences in household income.
Also contributing to greater income inequality are other forces that are affecting the quality of jobs and, arguably, recasting the earnings distribution. One important trend, operating on the "demand side" of the labor market, is employment polarization. Across many advanced economies, more job opportunities are tending to concentrate at the two ends of the skills spectrum: skills-intensive positions that demand high-level cognitive abilities and formal educational credentials, and a plethora of less skilled jobs that offer substantially lower compensation.
American economist David Autor has explored this topic in detail in the U.S. context. Looking at patterns of job creation and employee compensation, he distinguishes three broad groupings of occupations. The first consists of managerial, professional and technical jobs that require several years of post-secondary education and typically pay well above-average wages/salaries. Most households in the top 10 per cent of the income distribution have one and frequently two members who work in these kinds of occupations.
The second group is made up of what Professor Autor refers to as "middle-educated, middle-paid" occupations; these include sales, office, production, and repair occupations along with fabricators and operators. Workers in these fields commonly have some tertiary education, but not usually a full-fledged university degree. In the past, such occupations formed part of the bedrock of the American middle class and provided an important pathway to upward mobility.
A final set of occupations spans a diverse mix of service-related jobs in which employees generally don't have any formal post-secondary qualifications. Workers in many of these jobs are engaged in performing manual or other "in-person" tasks that can't easily be replaced with technology, or out-sourced to jurisdictions with lower labor costs. Examples are food preparation, cleaning, home and building maintenance, basic retail services, and a wide range of personal care services.
Professor Autor's research, supported by other academic studies, shows that job creation differs across the three groups of occupations. Since the 1980s, employment in the U.S. has grown briskly across most managerial, professional and technical occupations, as well as in many relatively lower-skilled service positions. But the picture is different for middle-educated/middle-paid occupations. Here, employment gains have lagged the economy-wide average and actually trended down over time. And these shifts in job creation among occupational groupings are expected to continue for the rest of the decade.
A notable consequence of rising demand for both highly educated workers and less educated workers performing manual or service tasks is a growing polarization of employment opportunities in America. But broadly similar occupational dynamics are unfolding in the Canadian job market. This may well herald a "partial hollowing out" of middle-income employment opportunities over time. If so, this trend can be expected to magnify concerns over income and earnings inequality.


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OTTAWA — The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's annual funding from the federal government will be cut by $115 million over the next three years, a blow that could lead to job losses or programming cuts at Canada's public broadcaster.
The number represents about 10 per cent of the annual $1.1-billion injection the corporation receives from the federal government.
The cuts will start this year, with a $27.8-million reduction in government spending on the CBC's operations, and increase to $69.6 million in 2013-14, and finally reach the $115-million savings mark by 2014-15.
The reductions to the public broadcaster, rumoured for months, also could amount to job losses at the CBC at a time the broadcaster already has been paring down and changing its operations to focus on more digital and diverse content.
"These cuts pale in comparison to the Chretien-Martin cuts," said Gregory Thomas from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Those cuts, he said, ended with 2,400 layoffs at the public broadcaster. "This isn't going to come close to that."
The Canadian Media Guild, which represents workers at the CBC, said it will be meeting with corporation executives in the coming days to determine who will lose their jobs.
"This is a sad day. We don't yet know exactly what these cuts will mean for CBC/Radio-Canada services and employees," said Marc-Philippe Laurin, president of the Guild's CBC branch. "However, this is a major cut that will surely have a devastating impact on CBC services by 2015."
The curtailment to the CBC is the largest portion of $191.1 million in heritage program cuts over the next three years. Aside from the CBC, the National Film Board will see its budget reduced by $6.7 million over the next three years, while Telefilm Canada will see a $10.6-million budgetary reduction.
The Canada Council for the Arts, the National Gallery of Canada and national museums will not see any budgetary reductions.
"It's a constructive step the government's taking," Thomas said. "We would have preferred to see deeper cuts to all of the cultural welfare programs."
Since the Conservatives won their majority government last May, CBC supporters have voiced concerns that it could disappear. Their concerns were exacerbated when one of CBC's competitors, Quebecor, launched attacks on the public broadcaster.
"We believe in the national public broadcaster," Heritage Minister James Moore said in a postelection victory interview with the CBC last May.
"We have said that we will maintain or increase support for the CBC. That is our platform and we have said that before and we will commit to that."
Until now, the Tories have been consistent with the federal funding flowing to the CBC. Public account documents for 2007 through to last year show that the federal allotment to the CBC has ranged from a low of $1.1 billion in 2006 to a high of $1.14 billion in 2010 and 2011.
"Rural and remote regions will feel the heaviest blows because they often rely on the CBC as their primary media presence," said Tyler Morgenstern of Reimagine CBC, a citizens group associated with the organization OpenMedia.ca.
CBC executives have expressed concern publicly about the future viability of the broadcaster should the cuts to its budget run deep.
"The Corporation's strategic plan . . . was developed on the assumption that CBC/Radio-Canada will have stable funding within the five-year planning period," the CBC wrote in its annual report last year. "While a government funding reduction would not change the path of the new strategy, it could force the corporation to make adjustments."
The watchdog group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting argued that the cuts will lead the CBC to close foreign news bureaus and possibly lead to the death of CBC Radio Two as well as other Canadian programming.
"The Harper government has singled out the CBC for punitive cuts and has broken its election pledge to maintain or increase CBC funding in the process," said group spokesman Ian Morrison.


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Interesting week ahead...
Sirius is all over the place. I have no earthly idea what it is going to do.
BAC: I am mixed over this. I had no time to research banks this week. The Dems and Reps are still squabliing over the damn bailout package. News will definately send the stock up, but will it drop on profit taking before then? I think I'll put a stop loss in at $6 and another limit order in at $5.25 in case it drops like a rock.
AIB is up as well, but not nearly like BAC was. I think they have room to run, and I will be sticking with them for now.
CTGI is no longer a tradeable stock and needs to be dumped IMMEDIATELY. They just reported on the 5th that they defaulted on one of their convertible debentures due to a ruling against them and must repay a large bit of money. They will be going down quickly in the near term.
Bill, I did not have a chance to look at any of the stuff you sent me. It has been a hecktic weekend...
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News From Saturn
A large island, in the middle of one of Titan's largest lakes, was spotted on Cassini's recent flyby of the moon.
Transcript:Hello and welcome to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. I'm Jan Berkeley, one of the Sequence Team Lead engineers on the Cassini program here to share the latest news from Saturn. My job is to build and send commands up to the spacecraft so that it can carry out all of the tasks we ask it to perform. The result of a recent command sequence I sent up culminated in some amazing views of Saturn.
Now, let's talk about our most recent flyby of Titan on Feb. 22, 2007. Cassini's radar instrument crisscrossed over familiar terrain and captured more lakes and dunes. One of the most exciting results from this flyby is a large island, which is right in the middle of one of the largest lakes ever seen on Titan. We're anxious to see more on upcoming flybys, but for now, let's turn our sights on Saturn.
Cassini has returned some amazing views of Saturn: from the top to bottom, sideways and just about every angle you can The first view shows the giant planet coasting overhead as its atmosphere rages with thunderous, hurricane-like storms. A giant bull's eye pattern is centered on the south pole, where yet another massive storm spins.
Next is a movie sequence that captures Saturn's rings during a ring plane crossing--which Cassini makes twice per orbit--from the spacecraft's point of view. As the spacecraft speeds from south to north, the rings appear to tilt downward, collapse to a thin plane, and then open again. If you watch carefully, you'll see six moons orbit beyond the rings.
Finally, we close with a stunning view of Saturn from the top which takes in the rings in their entirety. Up next for Cassini is a flyby of Titan on March 10. Our planned observations include temperature mapping, and monitoring of cloud motion on the moon Titan. From Pasadena, California, this is Jan Berkeley with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and your latest news from the ringed planet.


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NY Loves Japan: Sake & Food Fund Raising Event on 4/27/11Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
SAKAYA is proud to be a member of a coalition of NYC's top sake and food community members that have joined together with the nonprofit organization Project by Project, to produce an unprecedented tasting event to benefit disaster relief for the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan at la.venue in Chelsea on Wednesday, April 27, 2011. We urge you not to miss this exceptional opportunity to help those in need while enjoying over 100 different sake and sampling cuisine from 15 of the city's finest restaurants.
For tickets and more details please visit the NY Loves Japan website.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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During the Trojan War, Troilus, younger son of Priam, king of Troy, falls in love with the lovely and unapproachable Cressida, daughter of Calchas, a Trojan priest who went over to the side of the Greeks. Troilus, frustrated by his unrequited love, declares to Pandarus, a Trojan lord and uncle of Cressida, that he will refrain from fighting the Greeks as long as there is such turmoil in his heart. Pandarus adds to Troilus's misery by praising the incomparable beauty of Cressida; Troilus impatiently chides Pandarus, who answers that for all it matters to him Cressida can join her father in the Greek camp.
Later, Pandarus overhears Cressida and her servant discussing Hector's anger at receiving a blow in battle from Ajax, a mighty Greek warrior of Trojan blood. Pandarus extols Troilus's virtues to Cressida, who is all but indifferent. As the two discourse, the Trojan forces return from the field. Pandarus praises several Trojan warriors—Aeneas, Antenor, Hector, Paris, Helenus—as they pass by Cressida's window, all the while anticipating, for Cressida's benefit, the passing of young Troilus. When the prince passes, Pandarus is lavish in his praise, but Cressida appears to be bored. As Pandarus leaves her to join Troilus, Cressida soliloquizes that she is charmed, indeed, by Troilus, but that she is in no haste to reveal the state of her affections.
In the Greek camp, meanwhile, Agamemnon, commander of the Greek forces in Ilium, tries to put heart into his demoralized leaders. Old Nestor declares that the seven difficult years of the siege of Troy are a real test of Greek stamina. It is the belief of Ulysses that the difficulties of the Greeks lie in a lack of order and discipline, not in Trojan strength. He reminds his fellow Greek leaders that the disaffection of mighty Achilles and the scurrilous clowning of Patroclus, a Greek leader, provoke disorder in the Greek ranks. Even Ajax, usually dependable, is fractious, and his follower, deformed Thersites, embarrasses the Greeks with his taunts.
As the Greek leaders confer, Aeneas delivers to them a challenge from Hector, who in single combat will defend the beauty and the virtue of his lady against a Greek champion. When the leaders go their several ways to announce the challenge to Achilles and to other Greeks, Ulysses and Nestor decide that the only politic action to take, the pride of Achilles being what it is, is to arrange somehow that Ajax be chosen to fight Hector. Ajax, Achilles, and Patroclus hear of the proclamation but tend to disregard it. Their levity causes the railing Thersites to break with them.
In Troy, meanwhile, Hector is tempted to concede to a Greek offer to end hostilities if the Trojans return Helen to her husband, King Menelaus. Troilus chides his brother and Helenus for their momentary want of resolution. As the brothers and their father, Priam, discuss the reasons for and against continuing the war, Cassandra, prophet and daughter of Priam, predicts that Troy will be burned to the ground by the Greeks. Hector heeds her warning, but Troilus, joined by Paris, persists in the belief that the war, for the sake of honor, must be continued. Hector, although aware of the evil the Trojans are committing in defending Paris's indefensible theft of Helen from her husband, concedes that for reasons of honor the fighting must continue.
The Greek leaders approach Achilles, who keeps to himself since his quarrel with Agamemnon. Refusing to confer with them, Achilles retires into his tent and sends his companion, Patroclus, to make his apologies. Achilles persists in refusing to deal with the Greek commanders, who seek in him their champion against Hector. Ulysses plays on the pride of Ajax with subtle flattery and convinces this Greek of Trojan blood that he should present himself as the Greek champion in place of Achilles.
In the meantime, Pandarus prepares the way for a tryst between Troilus and Cressida by securing the promise of Paris and Helen to make...
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The Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library presented its Library Information Technology Forum today. Its purpose is to inform the University of Utah community about electronic information resources, and current trends in the use of computers and online technologies for accessing these resources. The Forum is generally held the second Wednesday of each month between September and May, in the Health Sciences Education Building, and is co-sponsored by the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library and the Media-On-Demand committee.
This month's topic is was on adaptive technology for students of the University of Utah, and was provided by Scott M. McAward, Ph.D., the Director of the Center for Disability Services (CDS). McAward pointed out that technology can benefit all users – students, faculty, and staff. However, technology is not always accessible or adaptive for all.
McAward presented a chart showing the number of different disabilities they assist with, along with the percentage of students with disabilities involved. The CDS serves students at all levels and disciplines, and tracks 13 broad categories of disabilities. They have seen this population increase by 26% over the last five years, and they expect a larger group of veterans to be returning to campus in the future. Well over half of the students they assist have disabilities that are invisible — cognitive, psychological, etc.
The CDS provides adaptive and accessible software and technology to students with disabilities. These include providing interpreters and notetakers for students, changing and holding (restricting) classrooms to accessible locations, and providing computers with adaptive technology such as screen readers, text-enlargement, etc. McAward went on to demonstrate several types of software and hardware, including a pen that records what the presenter says as you take notes, and which can be played back when you are reviewing your notes.
MacAward ended his talk with a "What you can do" list of steps and actions that we, as academic professionals, can take to support students with disabilities:
- Become familiar with adaptive technology; an ongoing process.
- Install adaptive software in labs.
- Be able to teach/demonstrate t someone else how to use adaptive tech
- Begin with accessibility in mind (electronic content).
- Pay attention to closed captioning.
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A few weeks ago, my colleague Stephanie Keep wrote about the expansion of NCSE's efforts from a focus solely on evolution and climate change to a larger effort to "support the development of a 'science-savvy' citizenry".
As she pointed out:
"NCSE was founded in the midst of calculated efforts by evolution-deniers to alter how science was taught in public schools. Educators, parents, community members and others needed help getting organized to counter attempts to teach creationism. NCSE became—and remains—the #1 go-to place for advice, support, and action when science denial comes knocking on the doors of our schools. The metaphor we use around the office is that where there is a fire, NCSE will show up to hand out fire extinguishers."
She went on, though, to talk about a problem we have here at NCSE. We keep running around with fire extinguishers putting out brushfires rather than going after the fuel that science denial feeds on: a profound misunderstanding of the nature of science and a distrust of the scientific enterprise. We see this affecting many areas of science, not just climate change and evolution. Everything from an understanding of the Big Bang to vaccine acceptance is under threat.
Of course NCSE can't solve this problem alone—we are a tiny organization—but we can do something, and we can start by building on our roots. NCSE has over 30 years of experience defending the teaching of science in public schools, whether it is taking on legislators when they introduce bills that would allow the teaching of creationism, ensuring that textbooks present science accurately, or helping communities organize to support good quality science standards. But we believe we can do more—notably, doing more to support science teachers.
Teachers are on the frontline of science education but they get little thanks for it. When science grades are low, we blame science teachers—even as administrators and local governments steadily reduce the resources teachers need. When a goofy school board member tries to bring anti-science materials into a district, it's teachers who have to deal with the fallout. When polls suggest that the public has a poor grasp of scientific issues, whose fault is it? That's right, it's those darn science teachers.
That's not fair, and we want it to stop.
Science educators are an integral part of the scientific enterprise. Without them we would have no doctors, no researchers, and no citizens who understand and respect the role of science in their daily lives. We need science educators, and they need our support.
So what does that mean for NCSE? We know that more effective science teaching isn't just about getting kids to memorize facts. When teachers are asked to cover topics like evolution and climate change, they have to contend with the confusion and doubts that students bring into the classroom. We can help science educators teaching these socially contentious topics. We have the background, the experience and the knowhow to combat science denial at its roots. Our goal is to give science teachers the support and respect that they need to teach science forthrightly even when there is societal pressure not to.
As a result, we are launching our first ever teacher network called NCSEteach – complete with a teacher advisory board. The network will bring science teachers together, allow educators to connect with one another (and NCSE staff), guide them to good-quality and well-vetted resources, share stories of how they have dealt with challenges to science education and also connect them to early career scientists as a resource and partner in advancing the scientific enterprise.
Science teachers are the first and last hope for science in America. We need them to be strong and confident advocates for the good science, as Stephanie said, to help students "GET IT."
If you are interested in joining NCSEteach, you can sign up here and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. If you are not a teacher, but want to support us as we reach out to teachers across the country, you can donate to our cause here (write in the comments of the donation page "Go Teachers!")
Teachers, we are depending on you! But you are not alone, NCSE is here to help.


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Azamara recognized as "Most Effective Brand on Social Media – Cruise Line"
MIAMI, Sept. 9, 2015 – Azamara, the boutique cruise line known for its premier destination-immersive voyages for discerning travelers, is excited to announce that they have been chosen as the Most Effective Brand on Social Media in the Cruise Line category by Skift Travel Intelligence. Azamara was awarded the Skiftie distinction by Skift, their Editor's Choice judges and American Express.
Skift recognized the brand's paired content with relevant links to drive higher rates of site referrals across its platforms from a highly qualified audience. Skift also cited CEO Larry Pimentel's twitter presence being separate from the ships' account, allowing the brand to be more personal in catering to its audience with destination ideas, special offers, and milestones.
The Skifties Social Media Awards highlight travel brands that have turned social media interactions into quantifiable business objectives. Skift acknowledges this shift from social media's early purpose of acquisitions and interactions to drivers of awareness, consideration, and conversions. The awards feature selections in 25 categories that focus on the most effective travel brands by verticals, platforms, and use cases.
"We are thrilled to be recognized by the Skiftie Awards in the Cruise Line category," said Larry Pimentel CEO Azamara. "We're excited that our boutique cruise brand continues to be a powerhouse on social media and we look forward to continuing to grow and engage our online communities." See the full list of the 2015 Skiftie Award Winners here. To learn more about what Azamara is up to on social like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
About Azamara:
Azamara is a brand of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE/OSX: RCL), a global cruise vacation company that also owns Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Pullmantur, and CDF Croisières de France, as well as TUI Cruises through a 50 percent joint venture. Together, the six brands operate a combined total of 41 ships with four under construction. They operate diverse itineraries around the world that call on approximately 460 destinations on all seven continents.


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Our D. Gary Young Research Institute team helps Young Living employ cutting-edge science to develop unique products that lead the industry. This team also performs state-of-the-art research to support product claims and uses. With purity and efficacy being paramount to Young Living, the R&D team routinely develops new testing methods to help ensure the quality of our products.
Stringent, Unyielding Quality
Quality starts at the farm and is proven in our labs. Through our stringent, unyielding quality benchmarks, we are able to identify the most pure, genuine, and effective ingredients.
Our quality control team uses a battery of physical, chemical, and microbiological scientific tests to measure the exact components and properties of our essential oils. Each test is repeated numerous times during the quality process. Testing begins at our farms and continues all the way through the final stages prior to shipment to our customers.
Our team of highly trained, highly skilled scientists perform state-of-the-art tests, including but not limited to:
• Densitometry
• Viscometry
• Refractometry
• Polarimetry
• Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
• Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES)
• Gas Chromatography (GC)
• High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
• Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
• Automated Micro-Enumeration
• Disintegration
• pH
• Microscopy
• Combustibility
• Flash Point
• Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GCMS)
• Chiral Chromatography
• Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS)
While our labs can conduct all of these tests, we routinely use our third-party labs to supplement our internal testing. Each of these labs have highly skilled and trained scientists.
Quality Testing
Part of our stewardship is to do business responsibly—from sustainably sourcing plants, to uplifting local communities, and to complying with environmental and other laws. Chief Legal & Compliance Officer, Matthew French, oversees the Global Compliance Program, helping to ensure that Young Living offers pure product that you can feel confident is contributing to the greater good.
Top-tier Standards
Inexpensive essential oils are often synthetic, adulterated, or unethically sourced, which is why we choose partners who produce pure essential oils and ingredients ethically and legally. This practice sets a top-tier standard for sustainability.
Global Compliance Program
As part of our commitment to running our business ethically and legally, from sourcing and producing our essential oils, to marketing and selling our products, we have developed a global compliance program that outlines a series of mandatory policies and guidelines. The following list includes some of these policies and guidelines that are covered by the Global Compliance Program:
• Young Living Code of Conduct
• Young Living Employee Handbook
• Young Living Policies and Procedures
• Young Living Anticorruption Policy
• Young Living Environmental Compliance Policy
• Lacey Act Compliance Program
• Young Living Travel and Expense Policy
• Direct Selling Association (DSA) Code of Ethics
Industry Green Leader
Our efforts go beyond a conscientious supply chain. Young Living's commitment to sustainable business includes reforestation of harvested trees; recycling at Young Living offices; and the construction of our brand-new, LEED-certified headquarters in Lehi, Utah.
Lacey Act Compliance Program
Not only is our Lacey Act Compliance Program comprehensive, it is also the first in the essential oils industry that has been reviewed and accepted by the government. It is the gold standard for compliance programs, and we are proud to have gone above and beyond any of our competitors to establish it. We are engaging top legal experts around the world to keep us advised of the most current laws, as well as to inform us how to appropriately apply them to our most important business needs.
Our team has been working collaboratively with our corporate-owned farms, partner farms, Seed to Seal-certified suppliers, and the government for more than a year to develop this new program.
We also continually work with environmental experts around the world to keep us advised on the protection of delicate landscapes, and plants..
The Lacey Act Compliance Program consists of five general steps that when followed will help ensure that our essential oil products and partners comply with all laws and regulations in the jurisdictions in which we do business.
These five steps are:
Supplier Education
Provide all suppliers with the basic requirements of the Lacey Act.
Supplier Evaluation
Determine which products to source and which suppliers to partner with by evaluating "product risk" and "supplier risk" factors.
Supplier Certification
After providing training on the Lacey Act and our Compliance Program, suppliers will be required to execute the Young Living Lacey Act Compliance Certification.
Risk Assessment
As part of the certification, each supplier and plant product will be assigned a risk category that will determine the level of approvals needed to partner with, or source plant products for, Young Living. Both suppliers and plant products are independently assessed.
Based on the risk factors, Young Living has developed an ongoing auditing and monitoring program. The new Lacey Act Compliance Program is designed to cover all individuals and organizations in the supply chain.
This gold standard program sets the precedent for the industry and demonstrates Young Living's commitment to lead the essential oils movement by protecting delicate landscapes and plants.
Compliance Program
We invite you to explore our products and discover the difference that concrete standards make.
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Attorneys for King of Pop send box of memorabilia to Sarasota man, after he was featured in a holiday news story noting his love for the entertainer
James Waddell wears his shiny Michael Jackson glove on his left hand on vacation, at ballgames and practically everywhere else.
So of course Waddell asked for more Jackson music during a Christmas party last month that volunteers threw for him and other developmentally disabled residents at Community Haven.
He got his wish with a Jackson CD.
But the gifts kept coming for Waddell after he was featured in a holiday news story that caught the attention of the attorneys who administer Jackson's estate.
The Los Angeles attorneys recently sent a box of Jackson memorabilia, including a collection of concert DVDs, a Wii game and a T-shirt.
"Happy holidays and all of our best wishes for you in 2013!" said a letter written by a paralegal on behalf of attorneys John Branca and John McClain.
Waddell was, of course, delighted.
"He's Michael Jackson through and through," said Kim Clark, a marketing coordinator at the Sarasota facility where Waddell, 46, has lived for 10 years. "Michael just makes him happy."
On Friday, Waddell put on his curly black wig and a shiny red jacket that still had a No. 44 label from last year's Halloween costume contest.
Waddell showed off his new presents and listened to one of the concert DVDs in his living room.
Then he danced as if nobody was watching.
His feet shuffled on the carpet. He pumped his arms in the air and then shook his gloved left hand.
When Jackson took off his glove and flung it on the video, Waddell did the same.
A few minutes later, Waddell was still dancing as he headed to his job washing dishes at the Community Haven kitchen.NOTEStart


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I figured this would help a lot of people who are getting ready to go back to school to learn system administrating, networking, or attempting to obtain your MCSEs, this information should be very useful. This is taken from the good book Networking with Microsoft TCP/IP third edition.
The OSI Reference Model
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) developed the ISO reference model as a guide for defining a set of open protocols. Although interest in the OSI protocols has waned, the OSI reference model remains the most common standard for describing and comparing protocol suites.
There are seven (7) layers to the (OSI) Reference Model. Each layer provides a specific type of network device. The layers are numbered from the bottom of the protocol stack to the top.
The Physical Layer
The Physical layer communicates directly with the communication medium and has two responsibilities: sending bits and receving bits. A Binary digit, or bit, is the basic unit of information in data communication. A bit can have only two values, 1, or 0, which are represented by different states on the communciation medium. Other communication layers are responsible for collecting these bits into groups that represent message data.
Bits are represented by changes in signals on the network medium. Some wire media represent 1s and 0s with different voltages, some use distinct audio tones, and yet others use more sophisticated methods, such as state transitions (changes from high-to-low- or low-to-high voltages).
A wide variety of media are used for data communication, including electric cables, fiber optics, light waves, radio waves, and microwaves. The medium used can vary; a different medium simply necessitates substituting a different set of Physical layer protocols. The upper layers are completely independent from the particular process used to deliver bits through the network medium.
An important distinction is that the OSI Physical layer does not, strictly speaking, describe the media themselves. Physical layer specifications describe how data can are encoded into media signals and the characteristics of the media attachmentinterface, but the specifications do not describe the medium itself. In actual practice, however, many Physical layer standards cover characteristics of the OSI Physical layer as well as characteristics of the medium.
The Data Link Layer
Devices that can communicate on a network are frequently called nodes.
(Other names include station and device.) The. Data Link layer is responsible for providing node-to-node communciation on a single, local network. To provide this service, the Data Link layer must perform two functions. It must translate messages from the upper layers into bits that the Physical layer can transmit.
When the Data link layer receives a message to transmit, it formats the messages into a data frame. (You also hear data frames referred to as packets.) The sections of a frame are called fields.
Start Indicator; A specific bit pattern indicates the start of a data frame.
Source Address; The address of the sending node is also includeed so that replies to messages can be addresses properly.
Destination Address; Each node is identified by an address. The Data Link Layer of the sender adds the destination address to the frame. The Data Link layer
of the receiver looks at the destination address to identify messages it should receive.
Control In many cases, additional control information must be included. The specific information is determined by each protocol.
Data; This field contains all data that were forwarded to the Data link layer from upper protocol layers.
Error Control; This field contains information that enables the receving node to determine whether an error occured during transmission. A common approach is cyclic redundancy checksum (CRC), which is a calculated value that summarizes all the data in the frame.
The sending node calculates a checksum and stores it in the frame. The receiver recalculates the checksum. If the receiver's calculated CRC matches the CRC value in the frame, it can safely be assumed that the frame was transmitted without error.
Frame delivery on a local network is extremely simple. A sending node simply transmit the frame. Each node on the network see every frame and examines the destination address. When the destination address of a frame matches the node's address, the Data Link layer at the node receieves the frame and sends it up the protocol stack.
The Network Layer
Only the smallest networks consist of a single, local network. Most networks must be subdivided. A network that consists of several network segments is frequently called an internetwork.
These subdivisions can be planned to reduce traffic on network segments or to isolate remote networks connected by slower communication media. When networks are subdivided, it can no longer be assumed that messages will be delivered on the local network. A mechanism must be put in place to route messages from one network to another.
For messages to be delivered on an internetwork, each network must be uniquely identifies by a network address. When it recieves a message from upper layers, the Network layer adds a header to the message that includes the source and destination network address. This combination of data plus the Network Layer is called a packet. The network address information is used to deliver a message to the correct network. After the message arrives on the correct network, the receving Data link Layer can use the node address to deliver the message to a specific node.
Forwarding packets to the correct network is called routing, and the devices that route packets are called routers.
End nodes Provide users services. End nodes do use the Network layer to add network address information to packets, but they do not perfom routing. End nodes are sometimes called end systems (the OSI term) or hosts (the TCP/IP term).
Routers Incorporate special mechanisms that perform routing. Because routing is a complex task, routers are usually dedicated devices that do not provide services to end users. Routers sometimes are called intermediate systems (the OSI term) or gateways ( the historic TCP/IP term).
The Network Layer operates independently of the physical medium, which is a concern of the physical layer. Because routers are Network layer devices, they can be used to forward packets between physically different networks. A router can join an Ethernet to a token ring network, for example. Routers also are often used to connect a local area network (LAN) such as ethernet to a wide area network (wan), auch as ATM.
The Transport Layer
All network technologies set a maximum size for frames that can be senton the network. Ethernet, for example, limits the size of the data field to 1,500 bytes. This limit is necessary for the following two reasons:
1.) Small frames improve network efficiency when many devices must share the network. If a device could transmit frames of unlimited size, it might monopolize the network for an excessive period of time. With small frames, devices take turns at shroter intervals, and devices are more likely to have ready access to the network.
2.) With small frames, less data must be retransmitted to correct an error. If a 100KB message encouters an error of a single byte, the entire 100KB message must be retransmitted. However, if the message is divided into one hundred frames, each limited in size to 1KB, a one-byte error requires the retransmission of merely a single 1KB frame.
One responsibility of the Transport Layer is to divide messages into fragments that fit within the size limitations established by the network. At the receiving end, the Transport layer reassembles the fragments to recover the orginal message.
When messages are divided into multiple fragments, the possibility that segments might not be received in the order they are sent increases.
Under the OSI model, the Transport layer assigns a service access poinjt (SAP) IS to each packet. The TCP/IP term for a service access point is port. The SAP ID is an address that identifies the process that orginated the message. The SAD ID enables the Transport layer of the receiving node to route the message to the appropiate process.
Identifying messages from several processes so that the messages can be transmitted through the same network medium is called multiplexing. The procedure of recovering messages and driecting them to the correct process is called demultiplexing.
Because multiple protocols can be supported for any given layer, multiplexing and demultiplexing can occur at many layers. Some examples of multiplexing include the following:
Transport of different Ethernet frame types over the same medium. (Data link layer)
Messages for mulitple trasnport protocols, such as TCP and UDP on TCP/IP systems (Transport layer)
Messages for mulitple application protocols such as telnet, FTP and SMTP on a unix host session and higher layers
The Session Layer
The session layer is responsible for dialog control between nodes. A dialog is a formal conversation in which two nodes agree to exchange data.
Communication can take place in three dialog modes:
Simplex One node transmit exclusively, while another receives exclusively.
Half dublex Only one node can send at any given time, and nodes take turns transmitting.
Full dublex Nodes can transmit and recieve simultaneously. Full communication typically requires some form of flow control to ensure that neither device sends faster than the other device can receive.
Sessions enable nodes communicate in an organized manner Each session has three phases:
1. Connection establishment. The nodes establish contact. They negotiate the rules of communications, including the protocols to be used and communication parameters.
2. Data Transfer The node engage in a dialog to exchange data.
3. Connection release When the nodes no longer need to communicate, they engage in an orderly release of the session.
The Presentation Layer
The presentation layer is responsible for presenting data to the application layer. The presentation layer directly translate the data from one format to another. IBM mainframe computers use a character encoding scheme called EBCDIC, all other computers use the ASCII encoding scheme. If data are being transmitted from an EBCDIC computer to an ASCII computer, the Presentation layer might be responsible for translating between the different character sets. Numeric data is also represented quite differently on different computer architectures and must be converted when transferred between different machine times.
A common techniqueused to improve data trasfer is to covert all data to a standard format before transmission. This standard format probaly is not the native data format of any computer. All computers can be configured to retrieve standard format data, however, and convert it ito their ative data formats. The OSI protocol standards define Abstract Syntax Represetatio, Revision (ASN.1) as a standard data syntax for use at the Presentation layer. Although the TCP/IP protocol suite does not formally define a Presentationlayer, a protocol that serves a similar function is External Data Representation (XDR), which is used with the Network File System (NFS). Other functions that may fall to the Presentation layer are data encryption/decryption and compression/decompression.
The Presentation layer is the least frequently implemented of the OSI layers. Few protocols have been formally defined this layer. In most cases, network applications perform the functions that might be associated with the Presentation layer.
The application Layer
The application layer provides the services user applications need to communicate through the network. Examples:
Electronic mail transport A protocol for handling electronic mail can be used by a variety of applications.
Remote file access Local applications can be given the capability to access files on remote nodes.
Remote job execution Local applications can be given the capabilitys to start and control processes on other nodes.
Directories The network can offer a directory of network resources, including logical node names. This directory enables applications to access network sources by logical names instead of by abstract numeric node ID's.
Network Management Nteowkr management protocols can enabl various applications to access network management information.
You frequently encounter the term application program interface (API) used in conjuction with Application layer services. An API is a set of rules that enables user-written applications to access the services of a software system. Developers of program products and protocols frequently provide APIs, which enable programmers to easily adapt their applications to use the services the products provide. Acommon UNIX API is Berkeley Sockets, which Microsoft has implemented as Windows sockets.
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- Jacob Ostreicher, who had been detained since June 2011, was released
- A judge says the New York native will be under house arrest at night
- U.S. lawmakers say it's the "first positive development" in the case
- Six Bolivian officials were arrested in connection with the case last month
A flooring contractor from Brooklyn, New York, received news he had dreamed of for more than a year when a Bolivian judge released him on bail Tuesday.
Jacob Ostreicher wore a white bulletproof vest as he spoke with reporters after the hearing.
Supporters of the businessman, 53, who had been imprisoned for 18 months, say he faces death threats for exposing Bolivian government corruption connected with the case against him.
"His life remains at risk every day that he remains in Bolivia," U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, said in a statement Tuesday.
Ostreicher was arrested in June 2011 on suspicion of money laundering tied to a rice-growing operation.
He has denied the accusations and has claimed for months that corrupt officials had trumped up the case.
Bolivian authorities arrested six government officials last month, accusing them of trying to extort and steal from Ostreicher.
Now some of his one-time accusers -- including former employees of the attorney general's office and the country's interior ministry -- are behind bars in the same prison where he was held.
Bolivia's state-run ABI news agency has described that facility -- the Palmasola prison in Santa Cruz, Bolivia -- as the country's "most dangerous and overcrowded."
On Tuesday, Ostreicher was released on bail of 100,000 bolivianos (about $14,200), and now will be in more comfortable conditions, although the case against him hasn't been dropped.
He will remain under house arrest from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., Judge Eneas Gentile ruled Tuesday, but can move freely at other times.
Smith and U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-New York, praised Ostreicher's release as the "first positive development" in the case.
"But this is only the beginning of the end," Smith said. "Jacob has incurred permanent damage to his health and has lost over 18 precious months of his life with his wife, children and grandchildren."
After the hearing, an ambulance transported Ostreicher to a clinic where he is being treated for Parkinson's disease, ABI reported.
In an interview with CNN en Español from a hospital bed earlier this month, Ostreicher said he was wearing a bulletproof vest out of fear for his safety, even as officials had been arrested in the corruption probe connected with his case.
"Actually I feel much less safe. That's why you see me sleeping with this bulletproof vest," he said. "Because now there are some officials in prison."
The detention of Ostreicher, who at one point went on a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment, drew international attention. Actor Sean Penn sat at his side last week, calling for his release.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Ostreicher said his case was only one of many in the South American country.
"I want Bolivia to know that not only my family and I have been victims of these extortioners who are detained today. Also hundreds of Bolivian families have been victims, and the greatest victim has been President Evo Morales, for which these people deserve to be punished with the harshest penalties that exist," he said, according to ABI.
Demonstrators outside the courthouse Tuesday both advocated and denounced Ostreicher, CNN affiliate Bolivision reported.
Some claimed he had taken over land in Bolivia without paying for it.
But members of Bolivia's Jewish community said Ostreicher, an Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn, had been unjustly accused. Some of them held signs in Hebrew.
"He is one more Jew who is the victim of persecution," one man said. "We hope justice is done. We hope he is freed. Being free, he can defend himself. We hope that all of his property which has been seized, practically robbed, is returned to him."
Word of Ostreicher's release was posted on the "Free Jacob Ostreicher" Facebook page Tuesday.
Below a series of news reports, there were photos of crestfallen children posted last week.
"Hanukah without our grandfather - second year that we spend it without him," one caption said.